Population and Public Health

Deep Dive: Barriers to care can be traced to SDOH, and technology has a role to play as the best solution that connects data between providers and the community.

This morning MassChallenge hosted a virtual summit focused on innovation and the coronavirus. 

The new tool aims at collecting data from people in their homes. 

Facebook also plans to hold a virtual hackathon focused on COVID19. 

[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]

Early data from the roughly 100,000-participant effort suggest infrequent social distancing and regional behavior disparities (as of March 15).

[Since this article was published, the FDA has released an alert warning that it has not yet authorized any COVID-19 home testing kits]

The HIMSS Media editors discuss government and healthcare-organization response to the coronavirus, including chatbot services, drive-through testing sites and social-media monitoring.

In the first episode of The Alessi Agenda, Kevin Fenton, director of public health and wellbeing at Southwark, talks about how new technologies can help healthcare both build upon its existing infrastructure and evolve as patient needs change.